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Regions of the AU
North Southern East West Central
The member states of the African Union are divided into five geographic regions of the African Union .[ 1]
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Member state
Capital
Area (km2 )
1
Algeria
Algiers
2,381,740
2
Egypt
Cairo
1,001,451
3
Libya
Tripoli
1,759,540
4
Mauritania
Nouakchott
1,030,700
5
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
El Aaiún (proclaimed)
281,000
6
Tunisia
Tunis
163,610
Southern [ edit ]
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Member state
Capital
Area (km2 )
1
Angola
Luanda
1,246,700
2
Botswana
Gaborone
581,726
3
Lesotho
Maseru
30,355
4
Malawi
Lilongwe
118,484
5
Mozambique
Maputo
801,590
6
Namibia
Windhoek
824,116
7
South Africa
Pretoria
1,221,037
8
Swaziland
Mbabane
17,364
9
Zambia
Lusaka
752,618
10
Zimbabwe
Harare
390,757
East Africa [ edit ]
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Member state
Capital
Area (km2 )
1
Comoros
Moroni
2,235
2
Djibouti
Djibouti
23,200
3
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
1,104,300
4
Eritrea
Asmara
117,600
5
Kenya
Nairobi
580,367
6
Madagascar
Antananarivo
587,041
7
Mauritius
Port Louis
2,040
8
Rwanda
Kigali
26,798
9
Seychelles
Victoria
451
10
Somalia
Mogadishu
637,661
11
South Sudan
Juba
619,745
12
Sudan
Khartoum
1,886,068
13
Tanzania
Dodoma
945,087
14
Uganda
Kampala
236,040
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Member state
Capital
Area (km2 )
1
Benin
Porto-Novo
112,622
2
Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou
274,000
3
Cabo Verde
Praia
4,033
4
Côte d'Ivoire
Yamoussoukro
322,462
5
Gambia
Banjul
10,380
6
Ghana
Accra
238,534
7
Guinea-Bissau
Bissau
36,125
8
Guinea
Conakry
245,857
9
Liberia
Monrovia
111,369
10
Mali
Bamako
1,240,192
11
Niger
Niamey
1,267,000
12
Nigeria
Abuja
923,768
13
Senegal
Dakar
196,723
14
Sierra Leone
Freetown
71,740
15
Togo
Lomé
56,785
Central [ edit ]
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Member state
Capital
Area (km2 )
1
Burundi
Bujumbura
27,834
2
Cameroon
Yaounde
475,442
3
Central African Republic
Bangui
622,984
4
Chad
N'Djamena
1,284,000
5
Congo Republic
Brazzaville
342,000
6
DR Congo
Kinshasa
2,345,409
7
Equatorial Guinea
Malabo
28,051
8
Gabon
Libreville
267,667
9
São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé
964
Additional Region [ edit ]
The AU considers the African diaspora and some of the five current Regions of the African Union that may be further sub-divided due to containing more member states, as its additional regions.[ 2]
References [ edit ]